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Initially, Feb. 24 was the date set for when the National Assembly would meet and pick the country's next president. Castro had publicly stated his intentions to step down on February 24, but Cuba's National Assembly voted to extend the current legislative term to April 19.

President Donald Trump has unveiled his "America First National Security Strategy " giving India a "leadership role" in the "broader" Indo-Pacific region and taking a hardline on China and Russian Federation, provoking strong reactions from Beijing and Moscow.

Led by President Donald Trump, Republicans have sought to deflect attention paid to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russian Federation probe by questioning Hillary Clinton's role in the Uranium One deal as secretary of state. The State Department was one of nine agencies that approved the deal, according to the network news. Giustra still serves on the Board of Directors of the Clinton Foundation.

The small decrease past year in the rate of the nation's leading cause of death no longer canceled the drug epidemic's impact on life expectancy, Anderson said. Many of these deaths were seen at the intersection of the Midwest and Northeast, with West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, and New Hampshire being the areas with the highest overdose death rates.

Trump commuted the sentence for Sholom Rubashkin, 57, after being encouraged to do so by bipartisan leaders across the political spectrum, according to a White House news release. "The sentence previously imposed was unfair, unjust and essentially a life sentence", he said. Rubashkin is an American ultra-Orthodox rabbi belonging to the Chabad-Lubawitch Hasidic group, a spiritual revival movement arising from Eastern Europe.

Delaying the spring military drills , which involve 17,000 USA troops and 300,000 South Koreans, is yet another move to ensure security during the event, and in turn, sell a few more tickets. It has also bolstered security for the event. The South Korean president told NBC News that he hopes the Olympics bring a message of peace and the North's athletes will attend the Games.

Gehlot took hundreds of his close aides and supporters to Gujarat and gave them the responsibility to campaign in the state. Referring to the Congress' defeat in Himachal Pradesh, where the BJP has come to power, he said, "The Congress just can not win (polls)".

Al Franken plans to resign his Senate seat on January 2, opening the door for Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to take over the position January 3, Franken's office said Wednesday. Sen. "There is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party", Franken said in his December 7 speech.

Many South African activists compare Israeli policies towards the Palestinians to their country's decades-long system of Apartheid, which legally enshrined separation between black and white residents. In their joint statement, the SAJBD and SAZF warned that a downgrade of the embassy in Israel would leave South Africa poorer. That is what is important", said Ramaphosa, adding later: "The ANC has always taken care to seek.

As the head of the Chechen Republic, Kadyrov oversees an administration involved in disappearances and extra-judicial killings. The Treasury Department identified Katayev as a law enforcement official in Chechnya and accused him of involvement in a campaign of abuse against gay and bisexual men in Chechnya over the past year.